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WRX Sales Hit A Record Low, While A Discontinued Model Went Up Double Digits

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Subaru WRX sales dropped 41.2 percent from the year prior. Killing the entry-level WRX Base likely hurt overall demand. Subaru’s electric Solterra fell 13.9 percent in annual sales. The current Subaru WRX has its fans, and rightfully so, offering a solid option for buyers after a performance-focused sedan at a reasonable price. But newly released sales data show that demand collapsed last year, recording its worst year ever and suggesting that the model’s momentum may be fading fast. Through 2025, Subaru sold 10,930 WRXs in the United States. That’s a 41.2 percent drop from the 18,587 units sold in 2024, which had already marked a sharp decline from the 24,681 sold in 2023. Over just two years, WRX sales in America have fallen by 55.7 percent and so far, there’s little sign of a turnaround. Read: Subaru Kills Entry-Level WRX And Hikes Prices For 2025 Subaru hasn’t explained why sales have fallen by such a significant extent, but likely contributing to the lower demand...
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More Americans Than Ever Are Paying Over $1,000 In Monthly Car Payments

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One in five buyers now pay $1,000 or more per month. Longer loans and bigger balances hide affordability stress. Wealthier buyers dominate while others leave the market. It’s no secret that cars are getting more expensive. That’s true of both new and used cars , and the issue is big enough that automakers and lawmakers are talking about it. Now, we have new data that shows one in five car buyers in America is paying four figures a month for their ride. That’s significant because it impacts more than just the owner. It changes the market for everyone else, too. Read: Ford’s CEO Just Blew Up Congress’s Big Auto Affordability Hearing According to new data from Edmunds , 20.3 percent of all financed new-vehicle purchases in Q4 2025 came with monthly payments of $1,000 or more, the highest share ever recorded. That’s up from 19.1 percent in Q3 2025 and 18.9 percent a year earlier, capping off a year defined by stubbornly high prices, elevated interest rates, and consumers s...
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Chinese Vacuum Brand Drops A 1,876 hp Taycan-Trampling Reality At CES

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Dreame’s first EV is the Kosmera Nebula 1, revealed at CES 2026. It uses four electric motors to deliver a massive 1,876 hp output. Final design leans more toward Ferrari and Lotus than Bugatti. For months, Chinese consumer electronics company Dreame looked like it was trying to sneak into the car world dressed as a Bugatti. The early renders felt like Chiron fan fiction, and even the later teaser leaned heavily on a rare Bugatti one offs for inspiration. But now the covers are off at CES in Las Vegas, the real thing looks less Molsheim and more Maranello. Related: Dreame’s Cullinan SUV Clone Might Be Rolls-Royce’s Worst Nightmare The Kosmera Nebula 1 , as we now know the brand and model thanks to Car News China , still wears a dramatic shape, but it’s swapped out the heavy-handed hypercar cosplay for something lighter and more athletic, almost as if Lotus had a hand in the design. If the name rings a bell, that’s because we’ve heard it before, but we’ll get back to th...
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Nearly Half Of Toyota And Lexus Buyers Went Electrified, As Tacoma Has Its Best Year Ever

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Nearly half of Toyota and Lexus sales are now electrified across US. Some hybrids experienced more than 220 percent sales growth YoY. Lexus had its best year ever and 2025 was Toyota’s best since 2017. Toyota and Lexus just finished 2025 with 2.5 million vehicles sold in the US across, up 8 percent, and nearly half of them had one feature that secured their success: electrification. An incredible 47 percent of Toyota and Lexus sales now come from hybrids, plug-in hybrids, or fully-electric models, a number that would have sounded absurdly ambitious a decade ago. In total the two brands saw electrified sales climb 17.6 percent to almost 1.2 million units. The biggest challenge Toyota and Lexus face isn’t finding buyers, it’s fixing supply problems so that they can meet demand for their massively popular hybrid vehicles. Related: Akio Toyoda Teased A Mid-Engined Two-Seater, And MR2 Rumors Are Flying The biggest winners look exactly like what Americans already love, but...
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This Honda Dealer Thinks Discounting Prelude’s $25,000 Markup Counts As A Deal

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Dealer lists Prelude with $10K off, but still over MSRP. Many Honda fans say MSRP is already too expensive. Facebook listing drew backlash over inflated pricing. If there’s one thing that Honda enthusiasts have made clear, it’s that they want the new Prelude to be attainable. Yet, here we are with another account of a dealer clearly not getting the message . In fact, this story includes a dealer and a specific car that we’ve highlighted before. In the past, it was an eye-watering $68,850. Now, the dealer has slapped a massive discount on it, but don’t get too excited. That markdown only applies to the…markup itself, and the car is still priced five figures above MSRP. More: We Have A Honda Prelude Dealer Markup Record, Boys The dealer in question is Pohanka Honda of Fredericksburg , Virginia. It openly put a $25,000 market adjustment on its lone 2026 Prelude in stock late last year. As we pointed out, $68,000 is enough for buyers to pick up a Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing,...
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GM Extends Production Shutdown, Leaving Thousands Temporarily Out Of Work

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Workers at the site will be eligible for benefits while production is halted. GM says it’s performing maintenance and project work during the closure. The carmaker has also halted work at the Corvette’s Bowling Green plant. GM has confirmed that its Flint Assembly workers will remain on temporary layoff until January 26, extending a production pause that began just before the holidays on December 24. Though the plant floor remains quiet, unionized employees will continue to receive benefits during the downtime. The facility, located in Flint, Michigan, is responsible for building the Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD. Word of the shutdown first came in mid-December, when GM announced a four-and-a-half-week pause for what it described as “planned maintenance and project work.” Read: Why GM Is Quietly Shutting Multiple Plants For Over A Month A notice shared to Facebook by UAW Local 598, which represents workers and retirees at the Flint Assembly site, confirms t...
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The Man Behind the Original Corvette Stingray Just Built The Version He Always Wanted

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Brock’s concept revisits his 1957 Sting Ray design sketch. LT4 V8 makes 725 hp with a five-speed manual, rear drive. Split-window coupe heads to Mecum Kissimmee in 2026. It’s hard to wrap the 1963 Corvette Stingray in just one word, but if you had to try, “definitive” wouldn’t be far off. This was, and arguably still is, one of the most significant American sports cars ever built. That status holds up regardless of which badge you usually root for. Now, Peter Brock, the original designer of the ’63 Stingray, and also the man behind the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe, has revealed what he considers the ultimate version of that iconic split-window coupe. Oh, and it’s going up for sale: all 725 horsepower (540 kW) of it. Legacy Reimagined Brock submitted a sketch for what would one day become the 1963 Corvette Stingray back in 1957. He was just 21 at the time, and budgets, tooling, and production realities evolved his vision. Now, at 89 and firmly established as automotive ...
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